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The New Agenda is supporting four candidates for the position of Director of Women’s Bureau:
Anita Perez Ferguson, Former President Natl. Women’s Political Caucus
Mary Beth Maxwell, Founding executive director of American Rights at Work
Ellen Bravo, Former National Director of 9to5
Robin Leeds, Winning Strategies
Yesterday, we featured Anita Perez Ferguson and Mary Beth Maxwell. Today, we feature the other two candidates:
Ellen Bravo, Former National Director of 9to5
Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist for working women. She began working for 9to5, National Association of Working Women in 1982, when she helped found the …

The New Agenda is supporting four candidates for the position of Director of Women’s Bureau:
Anita Perez Ferguson, Former President Natl. Women’s Political Caucus
Mary Beth Maxwell, Founding executive director of American Rights at Work
Ellen Bravo, Former National Director of 9to5
Robin Leeds, Winning Strategies
Today, we will feature the first two candidates:

Anita Perez Ferguson, Former President National Women’s Political Caucus
Perez Ferguson is a dynamic speaker, thinker and advocate for women.  She has deep expertise in demographic diversity issues as well as domestic and international public policy. She formerly served …

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“I hope they don’t pick people who look like us and think like them—that’s the worst possible combination.”
Gloria Steinem, TIME, 1976
This is the story of a young girl from Kansas.   But the girl could be from anywhere.  She could be from Arkansas or Georgia or Washington or Louisiana, for that is hardly the point.
Our story takes us back several decades.  A young girl who witnesses the injustices of society. She becomes a young woman and develops an inner strength.  This young woman decides that she will speak up for those …

Cross-posted at Advancing Women
Today there is an ongoing flap about the consideration of Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), for Directorship of the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor. If you recall, NOW endorsed the all-male ticket of Obama and Biden in the general election. Some question her motives and believe it was a type of “pay for play”.
All the talk and back and forth in the blogosphere, with many women’s groups protesting Gandy as a choice, has set me to thinking …

Meg Whitman
With so much new and noteworthy news flying around, we thought we would encapsulate some interesting developments:
Women on the ticket for Governor of California?:  Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, is considering a run for Governor of California on the Republican ticket. Rumors also abound that Senator Dianne Feinstein might run on the Democratic side. Just what TNA loves to see – a women on both tickets!
Women close to surpassing men in workforce : The New York Times reported that the current recession may be the …

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Dagmar Celeste
Dagmar Celeste has a long history of working on issues that make a difference for women.
As Ohio’s first lady she worked with her husband to make sure that there were women in every department who would be accountable for women’s issues. Other achievements as first lady include an initiative to establish state-sponsored child-care, the Task-Force on Family Violence, co-chairing the Governor’s Commission on Volunteerism, and the Council on Holocaust Education. She is also active …

A man’s wife or POSSLQ gets pissed off at him for leaving his dirty dishes in the sink instead of putting them in the dishwasher or washing them himself, or shoving a week’s worth of dirty socks under the bed so she is forced to crawl underneath on all fours to retrieve them on laundry day, or watching TV instead of getting dinner started when she had to stay late at the office and has come home bone tired. That can only mean one thing: She’s on the rag.
So “self-preservation” …

The following letter will be submitted to the Obama Administration:
RE:  Obama Administration – Director of the Women’s Bureau
To Whom It May Concern:
The New Agenda is a national non-partisan women’s rights group with members in 50 states.
We are writing to inform you that The New Agenda does NOT endorse Kim Gandy for the position of Director of the Women’s Bureau. The New Agenda believes that while serving as President of the National Organization for Women, Ms. Gandy did not represent the women whom she was elected to represent. The New …